iTunes já é asegunda loja de musica dos EUA

«For the first time last year, nearly half of all teenagers bought no compact discs, a dramatic increase from 2006, when 38% of teens shunned such purchases, according to a new report released Tuesday. The illegal sharing of music online continued to soar in 2007, but there was one sign of hope that legal downloading was picking up steam. In the last year, Apple Inc.'s iTunes store, which sells only digital downloads, jumped ahead of Best Buy Co. to become the No. 2 U.S. music seller, trailing Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

That could be hopeful news for the music industry, which has been scrambling in recent years to replace its rapidly disappearing CD sales with music sold online. The number of CDs sold in the U.S. fell 19% in 2007 from the previous year while sales of digital songs jumped 45%, Nielsen SoundScan said. (...) Two years ago, teenagers accounted for 15% of CD sales. In 2007, the figure was 10%»fonte: «More teenagers ignoring CDs, report says», LA Times, By Michelle Quinn and Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
February 27, 2008